Mass Effect 3

[ophidian]

I buy ME kinda games over console anyway but I damn well agree about any rants regarding Origin. I am already pissed about them turning the great Origin name into some stupid spyware - social network marketplace.

I also support pirate stuff completely when companies try to **** with DRM / social network ftwpwn stuff. I ll buy this on Xbox. my ME 1-2 are also on X360 anyway.

F... Origin.

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[Sarawr!?]

I like how EA made them change everything to make it appeal to mainstream/younger audiences...

It started in ME2 and it seems like it'll be worse in ME3


Example: Ashley Williams went from being a loyal soldier, also racist and Christian to looking like some kind of oversexualized fem fatale.

Also, All weapons available for all classes is another example. (Although admittedly isn't that bad)

But from the trailers I've seen it seems way more SPACE CALL OF DUTY than TPRPG.

*shrugs*

Either way, I'm done with BioWare after this trilogy finishes.

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[LN] Recruitment | Rachel Baker Bio

[r3vange]

http://gamingbolt.com/origin-is-required-f...f-mass-effect-3
Origin Required for all PC copies of ME3
Source: Bioware

*Waits for ME3/EABoycott/OriginHate/nosteamnobuy mobs*

[size=12]There you have it, the first ME I'll actually 2milrdie, and laugh. Dick move EA, but fear not gamers are not stupid, and your greed for money will force you put it on steam sooner or later [ /size]

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[Aingar]

And I thought Ubisoft was acting like a moron, at least they gave AC:R ability to play offline after one-time activation, fair enough if you ask me.

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[Canadianguy]

And I thought Ubisoft was acting like a moron, at least they gave AC:R ability to play offline after one-time activation, fair enough if you ask me.

IMHO that's what companies should do.

Its pretty hard to fend off pirates completely, making a DRM which annoys the legit player but which will be circumvented by the pirate is stupid IMHO.

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[r3vange]

[color=#FFFFFF]The problem with Origin isn't that it requires connection to play, it's the fact that Origin is pretty much spyware

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[ivr56]

You know you can play ME3 offline just like BF3 SP after the first install. I really don't see your argument there.
You don't get cloud saves but offline mode is there.

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[Aingar]

And I guess someone with proper skills will make some sort of "origin-blinder" that will render the spyware part inactive, in due time.

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[Sarawr!?]

Hrm...after reading the newest issue of Game Informer today, I gleaned some stuff from the article there, and I was also reminded of the "Official Femshep competition" Which devolved into a pointless and semi-demeaning beauty contest.

They took the idea of FemShep being an awesome Space Commander who you'd follow into battle but who was still pretty enough to be all RAWR GIRL POWER <3, and turned her into a friggen SPACE COMMANDO BARBIE.

She's supposed to be thirty, yet BioWare's official female Shepard looks like a 22 year old playboy model, thanks to EA insisting that ME3 pander to a 'wider audience' and bring in a 'new demographic'.

This can also be seen in the addition of Multiplayer to Mass Effect, as well as three different ways to play the game.

Story Mode - Dumbs down the combat AI and focuses solely on the story aspects and choices the player can make in the game.

Action Mode - Amps up the combat AI and completely eliminates player choice from the story of the game.

Roleplay Mode - Enemy AI on 'Normal' with player choice still completely available and unhindered. (Only there because they'd lose their entire -loyal- fanbase if it wasn't there, imho.)

They're trying to bring in all the kiddies and casuals. (No offense to any younger people who may be here)

And what better way to do that than the addition of 'COD STYLE' Multiplayer and a sexy blond barbiedoll as the female face of the series?

GG EA Games. Thanks for Hijacking an awesome series and turning it into this. Thankfully the original team still works on ME though.

Like I said in my initial post - I won't be playing anymore BioWare games after ME3, unless they miraculously get out from under EA Games. EA games is fine when they work on their own projects, but when they chew up small studios and churn out new games bearing their project names to the point where there's just no more money to be made, it's not cool.

DA: Origins for example, was good, DA II, was not. Another, earlier example was when EA Games bought out Westwood Studios, the studio behind the Command & Conquer series. Every C&C after RA2 (Which was released after the EA buyout) has been complete streamlined crap.

Mass Effect 1 was Awesome, Mass Effect 2 was good, (Despite the removal of the former Lead Writer), We'll see how ME3 fares, I honestly hope it's the end of the ME series as was originally intended. And additionally, thank God we'll still be able to change how our characters look. I'm not playing some Playboy Shepard who looks like she should be taking orders from ME.

*Shrugs* I dunno if any of that really makes sense to you guys buuut yeah.

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[LN] Recruitment | Rachel Baker Bio

[NixOlympica]

It does, even thou Bioware is not really a small studio but it's almost looking like whole gaming scene would be turning to EA vs Ubisoft/Activision battle. The saddest thing is how hard is for independent studio produce a great game and sell it to the audience without having those "godfathers" behind you.